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In the late 19 century, the United States government allowed officials at voting placed to administer literacy tests, primarily to people of color, in order to vote. This was done to keep many black people and some poorer white people from voting.
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What is a grandfather clause and what was it purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
What is a grandfather clause and What is its purpose in literacy tests?
What is a grandfather clause, and what was its purpose
The purpose of the literacy tests that were used in the southern states after 1870 was to?
To discurage african Americans from voting
What was the purpose of poll taxes and literacy tests in the south during Reconstruction?
Tools to disfranchise African Americans
When were the literacy test abolished?
Literacy tests were abolished officially in 1965.
When were literacy tests abolished?
1965
For many years some states required that a person pass a literacy tests before they could register to vote what was the purpose of these literacy test?
From the 1890s to the 1960s the United States government administered literacy tests to immigrants, freed blacks, and poor whites. The practice was put in place to weed out those deemed illiterate and therefore ineligible to vote.
What did southerner whites use to disenfranchise African Americans after the civil war?
poll taxes and literacy tests
Literacy Tests?
This refers to state government practices of administering tests to prospective voters purportedly to test their literacy in order to vote. In practice, these tests were intended to disenfranchise African-Americans.
What was the purpose of literacy?
Literacy leads to education and education leads to prosperity.
What election practices did progressive argue for?
literacy tests
What is the difference between the literacy tests given to the African Americans compared to those given to white?
African Americans and Whites are given exactly the same literacy tests.
